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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."
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